As you’ll be likely to know, assuming this isn’t the first post you’ve ever read on my site, I’m currently in the process of redesigning my site. The design is still very much a work in progress and no bits are actually finished yet, but I’m starting to get further on down the line with [...]

… but let’s get it right: I’m a web developer and/or designer. You could also refer to me as a systems or a database developer or designer. You could also refer to me as a IT Projects Manager. All of these things I do. What I do not do, what I have never done, and [...]

Just for anyone at work who checks my blog over the weekend, I’ll let you know now that we didn’t win the £66 million EuroMillions jackpot tonight. In fact, we won bugger-all, which is about as well as we normally do…

Okay, so I’ve decided to build myself a WordPress theme. Great. The first question is how, precisely, do I go about doing this? Step 1: Take an existing wordpress theme. Dismantle it. Work out the bits you want, put them together in the order you want. When I’ve got it approximately right, then I can [...]

I see it’s the England — Spain friendly tonight. Sigh. I find it really hard to have any motivation or interest in England friendlies these days, probably because: Friendlies are invariably crap. England friendlies in particular are invariably dull, dull, dull, games England — now with added “Wembley” — will be reverting to being a [...]

Two of the sites I have an interest in, Accessites and Revish have undergone some changes recently. As I’ve mentioned before, I’m one of the site graders for Accessites. At times, this has meant quite a significant investment of time from all of the graders, and because we do have other lives to lead — [...]

You know, that’s the thing I like about WordPress. Upgrading is easy. Okay, sometimes it may be time-consuming when you’re making backups and copying files, but there’s not much in the way of complexity or instructions that are difficult to follow. It’s just “make a backup”, “copy these files”, “run this”, and you’re sorted. Thanks [...]

I bought some cheap shoes last weekend. I wouldn’t normally have mentioned it, as it’s not really the sort of thing you tend to brag about: Hey everyone! Look at me! I’ve bought some cheap shoes because I’m a miserly skinflint!Bragging about cheap shoes …but on the other hand I did mention it to a [...]

I’ve been thinking about redesigning my site for some time. It first appeared on the net in the back end of 2005, with a nice, blocky white-and-one-other colour feel to it. Not something that by any standards that could be described as a nice site design, but then I wasn’t a site designer, I was [...]

Myself, the GLW, our two boys have been to St Mary’s Island today, along with Grandma Jenny and Granda Bryan (who came in their own car). This is a little island just off the North East coast of England (apparently it’s sometimes called “Bait Island”, but I’ve never heard it called that) which is basically [...]